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Carl Hooper?s life in sport: from West Indies to Australia via county cricket

Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Carl Hooper, 58, played 102 Test matches for the West Indies between 1987 and 2003, scoring nearly 6,000 runs, taking 114 ...

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review ? a quietly brilliant midlife roadtrip

Ben Markovits?s quietly excellent new novel begins with the most mundane of middle-class crises. The book?s narrator, 55-year-old law professor Tom La...

Trump?s tariffs ? five key takeaways

1. Firms are bracing for what ?liberation? means The US president sold the idea of global tariffs with a celebratory air, making good on his campaign ...

Paris?s rewilded railway line: the disused track turned into a green space for wildlife and walkers

A rustle in the undergrowth sends birds wheeling above the trees and into the sky. I?m left alone and in near total silence as I look along the train ...

Muriel?s Wedding review ? Toni Collette is outstanding in the film that brought Abba back

When writer-director PJ Hogan made Muriel?s Wedding in 1994, he surely knew he had struck feelgood-movie gold. But maybe he didn?t realise he had pers...

Suspended in time: ethereal photos that look like landscape paintings

Plouescat, 2019 ?This image was made shortly before Covid hit the world. I was hunting for sceneries closely related to the photography of Gustave Le ...